Love Takes Work

I have a character who makes a lot of puns. I die a little when I write them for her.

Now I have another character who also hates that character's puns.

Dang, I wonder how rare some of them will be. It was REALLY hard to get the superchase one with the Steven.

omg! they posted the faces.

CONNIE IS WEARING THE GLOW BRACELET AND HER ORANGE BOOTS

More low-effort pencil sketches to play around with people's backstory. Amber may be an awkward lesbian but she can be smooth in the moment. I think squirrels had to be in there somewhere.

I collect Steven Universe merch and my collection is honestly pretty legendary. Want to help me find the stuff I'm missing?

Merch I'm still looking for:

1. Steven Universe 3D Charms: Steven and Lapis

These 3D keychain charms were VERY briefly listed as "preorder" on Hot Topic's website, but when I ordered 10 of them, they were delivered. They are mystery ball items so it's not surprising I didn't get all the ones I wanted for the collection. But then? Mysteriously? The item was no longer available. ANYWHERE. I cannot find a single place to buy these. I have even tried internationally and they refunded my money. I managed to find a few secondhand, but up to this point I still can't find Steven and Lapis.

Please note that these are VERY similar to the 3D Buddies figures. 3D Buddies are still readily available, but they are slightly larger and do not have the keychain loop. I have all of the 3D Buddies! I do not have the 3D Charms! If you are helping, please make sure you're not mistakenly referring me to available 3D Buddies instead! See slight difference below:

2. Jagi Caps

These high-quality baseball caps are only available from jagicaps.com. The prices are listed in Colombian pesos and a USA resident can’t order into the country; they will only ship inside of Colombia. I somehow found the two crossed-out items on eBay, but the seller was unable to connect me with a way to order more. I’d like to get the rest of these hats for my collection someday.

3. Circular Mystery Buttons from Box Lunch: Garnet and Crystal Gems Group

BoxLunch apparently used to sell these, and I found half of them on the secondary market (the Secret Button is a really cool lenticular Steven). I cannot find the others! I’d like to, if you’ve seen them for sale anywhere.

4. Forbidden Planet Badges

These are/were available at Forbidden Planet in the UK, but I haven't been able to get my hands on most of them! I have a Mr. Universe and a logo badge. I haven't been able to get the star, the Steven, or the Garnet.

5. Double Cookie Cat Keychain

This appears to have been a BoxLunch item at one time but I have not seen it available for purchase anywhere. I’d love to run into this–it’s so cute! Its design mirrors several items I do have, but I’ve never seen them together.

6. Save the Light Pin: Pearl

I cannot find a picture of the Pearl Save the Light pin, but I know it exists because I have Steven, Garnet, and Amethyst in the style (bought from an eBay seller). I’d like to find this pin somewhere to complete the set.

7. Various Wallets

These are some of the wallets I’ve seen floating around that I can’t find for sale anymore. The Garnet ones especially are so cool! I believe they were originally Bioworld items. I need more wallets to add to my collection so they can all be empty to symbolize how much I have spent on SU merch.

8. Official Steven Universe Fleece Blankets

These were from the Cartoon Network Shop. The Steven blanket is the only classic blanket I still have left to find, and the Garnet and Big Donut ones were available for a really short time, such that when I ordered the Garnet one when it was still available they told me they were out and never made it again.

9. Cookie Cat Watch

This was once available on Entertainment Earth but is no longer being sold on the site. Would love to find this.

10. Foodiverse Zine

This is probably one of the only original zines I never got a copy of. It looks so cute but I’ve never seen one in person and I regret that! If anyone’s got one I’d love to buy it if you’re not interested in it anymore.

11. Cartoon Network Hotel Merch

Some of the merchandise once sold in the CN Hotel gift shop was exclusive to the shop. (Most of it isn’t and I have it.) The hotel is now closed and I was not successful in finding out what happened to its merch. Among other items, I'd like to find these:

Amethyst and Pearl travel cups with lids/straws (I have the Garnet and Steven ones)

Amethyst, Pearl, and Garnet star shirts

4 Diamonds shirt

Coffee cup of Gems in CYM outfits

Steven star pin

12. DC Comics' Multiversus: Collision Detected Issue #6, Variant Cover by Chrissie Zullo Umiga

I don’t collect Multiversus comics in general, but I do want the ones with SU characters on the cover! This one is the only one I haven’t been able to find cheaply/easily.

13. Promotional Bixler Jewelry Sets

These weren’t available for long and some of them were only around for special prizes at San Diego Comic Con, but I actually managed to get a Sapphire necklace. I wasn’t able to get any others in the set and don’t even know how many tie-ins they made. These are “real” jewelry and are pretty expensive, unfortunately, but I’m always hoping I’ll run into one!

14. Promotional Mobile

This was given out a LONG time ago as a promo item and I guess only exists if people kept it after receiving one in a promo capacity. I only ever saw it for sale once on eBay and I lost the auction. It looks fun, and it’s definitely something I never got my hands on. :)

15. Toy Fair Items

As far as I know these were never actually made; these are prototypes from a toy fair. But maybe some prototypes are lying around?

Garnet Gauntlets

Giant Steven plush

Series 2 Clip-On Plushies (only Series 1 was made)

Rose, Peridot, and Lapis Mystery Mini Plushies

16. Signed Convention Posters

I guess at least I know the story must be good. Yes please publish my story about a girl who survives the apocalypse but is still worried about getting judged for writing fanfiction

The first nibble is just a publisher I submitted to that keeps writing me back and asking me for more materials associated with it, like, they want my bio, they want a summary and stuff. But they never did straight up say they want the story or anything about whether they're actually considering it. I just know it's several back-and-forth communications and generally publishers are too busy to bother with all that if they're not interested in the story.

The second nibble was a straight up "I like it but we have to see if it balances with the other stories in the anthology so since I can't commit yet please feel free to keep sending it out and we'll understand." Ehhhhh

And the latest nibble was basically a yes we like this story along with some specific compliments, but yeah it's an unusual length and we're not quite sure how we'll handle it so we have to talk about it and can't tell you how long that'll take so feel free to accept someone else's offer if you need to.

Honestly, this is very unusual in the writing world, in my experience. Sure I've had "held for consideration" here and there but not that often and definitely not several times at the same time for the same story.